Hi Peter On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:03:22PM +1100, Peter Hawkins wrote: > Logtail should not output error messages to standard output, since this > violates the principle of least surprise.
Agreed! I'll get a patch in shortly.
> In particular, my application was broken by the semantics of logtail changing
> in version 1.2.21 (when you added switches for the default arguments to
> logtail). I think this was a bad move -- you broke an interface used by other
> people for no immediately apparent reason. logtail is _not_ only used by
> logcheck! Please consider other users of logtail next time you change
> something.
Agreed again. I will pay more attention to this in the future. I am not
entirely sure why this was changed in the first place.
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